Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Plot is the knowing of destination.

...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.